65955 - no useful window title in message window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Stephan Niemz]

Open a mail folder, double click on an email in the message pane.
A new window opens, containing only that email.

Expected: window title contains something useful, like
          <Subject> - <Sender> - Mozilla
Actual:   window title is just "Mail"

But it would be good if the title would *not* be the same as in the message
pane window, to make it possible to distinguish the two windows in the task
list.

Build 2001011820 on NT4. This is related to bug 29009, although not the same.

Comment 1

[jglick]

"<Subject> - <Product Name>" should be displayed in the Standalone window.

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

See also bug 56995.

Comment 3

[Stephan Niemz]

*** Bug 66162 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Casey Perkins]

cc'ing self...sorry for the junk mail...

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Patch to set title to "subject - appname"

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

hold off on this.  

mscott is working on doing this the right way on the mailnews performance branch.

giving the bug to him, so he can mark it fixed when we land.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

this has been fixed by the outliner and accompanying mailnews front-end landing...

Comment 8

[Ninoschka Baca]

Build 2001-04-03-04: NT4
Build 2001-04-03-05: Linux RH 6.2
Build 2001-04-03-09: Mac 9.04

I would like to verify this because it matches the spec: 
"<Subject> - <Folder> - for <Email Address> - Netscape (Mozilla)"

jglick: Earlier in this bug you stated a different format:
"<Subject> - <Product Name>". Please clarify which is the correct format.

Comment 9

[jglick]

In the Standalone window (double click a message to open it), 4.x used <Subject> 
- <application name> as the title.  I was assuming we'd be doing the same.

<Subject> - <Folder> - for <Email Address> - Netscape/Mozilla is what we are 
using in the 3 Pane Mail window with a message currently selected and displayed 
in the message pane.

I don't have a problem using the same format for the Standalone if that is what 
people want. The writer of the bug requested that the titles be different.

Comment 10

[Ninoschka Baca]

The "<Subject> - <Product Name>" format is fine with me. 

A better way to distinguish between the 3pane and Stand Alone window when they 
are minimized in the Windows Taskbar is to have different icons, which is 
already a bug. Using the "<Subject> - <Product Name>" format I don't think will 
help with this issue because the minimized icon only has room to display the 
first part of the window title which is the Subject in both cases.

Reopening to get the Stand Alone window to display the title in 
"<Subject> - <Product Name>" format.

Comment 11

[Joseph Delaney]

Using different icons will not work for Mac OS X, since the icons are not
displayed in the dock or on the "Window" menu. Also, in the Window menu the
names are truncated in the middle, so the titles must be different at the start
or at the end. I think a <mailboxname> at the start  for 3-pane view would
suffice, or preface the stand-alone window with "Message - ".

Comment 12

[Joseph Delaney]

Attachment: MacOS X Screen Shot

Screen shot of Window menu in Mac OS X. Item 1 is the 3-panel (in this
particular case, 2-panel) view, Item 3 is the stand alone window.

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

unless I misunderstand the bug (comment 10), WFM 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 XpcomViewer/0.8.9